Department of English, HU 33316 Irving Street

Barney / 1

RICHARD A. BARNEY

(Revised 3/18/12)

Department of English, HU 33316 Irving Street

University at Albany, State University of New YorkAlbany, NY 12202

Albany, NY 12222518/426-5677 (h)

518/442-4062 (o); 442-4599 (fax) 323/493-4059 (c)

Email:

EDUCATION:

Ph.D.1991 University of Virginia

M.A.1980 Miami University (Ohio)

B.S. & B.A.1978 Oral Roberts University, summa cum laude

Dissertation: “Pedagogical Plots: On the Beginnings of the Novel of Education

in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain.”

Director: Ralph Cohen

EMPLOYMENT:

2003-Associate Professor, University at Albany, SUNY

1997-2003Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma

1991-97Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma

1989-91Acting Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma.

1980-88Graduate Instructor, University of Virginia.

1985-86Section Coordinator for English Majors Survey of British Literature, University of Virginia; section instructor, 1983-86.

1987-88Chief Editorial Assistant, New Literary History;

Editorial Assistant: 1981-87.

1978-80Graduate Instructor, Miami University (Ohio).

1979-80Editorial Assistant, Society for Critical Exchange Reports (Miami University).

AWARDS AND GRANTS:

National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2009-10.

Charles Donald O’Malley Short-Term Research Fellowship, David Geffen School of Medicine and History and Special Collections for the Sciences, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, University of California, Los Angeles, January 2009.

University at Albany, College of Arts and Sciences Conference Travel Grant, April 2008.

University at Albany, Faculty Research Assistance Program Grant, April 2008.

University at Albany, College of Arts and Sciences Conference Travel Grant, November 2006.

Visiting Scholar, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, September-October, 2006.

United University Professors Independent Development Grant, April 2006.

University at Albany, Faculty Research Assistance Program Grant, May 2005.

University at Albany, College of Arts and Sciences Conference Travel Grant, November 2004.

University at Albany, College of Arts and Sciences Conference Travel Grant, December 2003.

Huntington Library / South Central Modern Languages Association Fellowship, July-August 2002.

University of Oklahoma, Graduate College Research Grant, September 2001.

University of Oklahoma, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Enrichment Grant, April 2001.

University of Oklahoma, Educational Technology Grant, December 2000.

University of Oklahoma, Graduate College Research Grant, September 2000.

Audrey and William Helfand Fellowship, The New York Academy of Medicine, July 2000.

University of Oklahoma Research Council Travel Grant, May 2000.

Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship, May 1999.

William Andrews Clark Library/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship,

March-April 1999.

Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, September 1998-March 1999.

University of Oklahoma Research Council Grant, 1998.

University of Oklahoma, College of Arts and Sciences Enrichment Grant, 1998.

Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Grant, 1997.

University of Oklahoma Research Council Grant, 1997.

University of Oklahoma Travel Grant, Summer 1997.

Huntington Library/South Central Modern Languages Association Fellowship, July-August 1996.

University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Enrichment Grant, 1996.

University of Oklahoma Research Council Grant, 1995.

University of Oklahoma Summer Research Fellowship, 1994.

University of Oklahoma Research Council Grant, 1994.

William Andrews Clark Library/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship,

July-August 1993.

Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Summer Grant, 1993.

University of Oklahoma Research Council Grant, Summer 1992.

University of Oklahoma Research Travel Grant, Summer 1992.

University of Oklahoma Summer Research Fellowship, 1991.

University of Oklahoma Research Travel Grant, 1991.

University of Oklahoma Computer Enhancement Grant, 1990.

Francis I. Dupont Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1986-87.

Distinction honors in passing Ph.D. exams, 1985.

Fellowship to attend the School of Criticism and Theory, Northwestern University, 1982.

Graduate Student Achievement Award, Miami University (Ohio), 1979.

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOK:

Plots of Enlightenment: Education and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century England. Stanford: Stanford University Press, September 1999. 402 pp.

[Reviewed in Novel 33 (1999): 122-24; Albion 32 (2000): 654-56; Philosophy and Literature 24 (2000): 490-93; Studies in English Literature 40 (2000): 585-86; South Atlantic Review 65 (2000): 174-77; TLS (22 Dec. 2000): 24; History of Education Quarterly 41 (2001): 274-76; 18th-Century Fiction 13 (2001): 593-95; History of Education 30.2 (2001): 202-3; 18th-Century Studies 35 (2002): 137-39; British Journal for 18th-Century Studies 25 (2002): 271-72; The Age of Johnson 13 (2002): 610-13.]

VOLUMES EDITED:

Rhetorics of Plague:Early and Late. A special issue of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 10.2 (Winter 2010-11). Co-edited with Helene Scheck. A collection of essays exploring transformations in the representation of plague in Islamic, Christian, biopolitical, colonial, theatrical, and cinematic contexts from the 15th to the 21st century. Nominated for the Council of Editors of Learned Journal’s 2011 “Best Special Issue” award.

David Lynch: Interviews, for the Conversations with Filmmakers series. General Ed. Peter Brunette. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, October 2009. A tradebook series on directors such as Martin Scorsese, Jane Campion, George Lucas, John Sayles, and Quentin Tarantino. The volume includes an introduction, a filmography, and two of my own comprehensive interviews with the director. Soon to be translated into Italian.

[Reviewed in The Onion A.V. Club, 15 Oct. 2009 (an online venue: articles/david-lynch-interviews,34110/); Director’s Guild of America Quarterly 5.4(Winter 2010): 72; Metroland 33.6 (Feb. 2010)]

Barney / 1

Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, for The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama. General Ed. Douglas Canfield. Orchard Park, N.Y.: Broadview Press, May 2001. Reprinted in the Anthology’s Concise Edition, April 2003.

The Culture of Filth. A special issue of Genre 27.4 (Winter 1994). Co-edited with Grant Holly. [Issued Spring 1996]

Education, Identity, and Constructions of the Novel. A special issue of Genre 26.4 (Winter 1993). [Issued Winter 1995]

ARTICLES:

“Burke, Biomedicine, and Biobelligerence” for “Sensational Subjects,” a special issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, edited by Manushag Powell and Rivka Swenson; submitted by invitation July 2011.

“Eyeing the Divine: The Physiology of the Sublime in Early Modern England.” The New York Academy of Medicine Newsletter, forthcoming winter 2011.

“Early and Modern Biospheres, Politics, and the Rhetorics of Plague.” (With Helene Scheck) Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 10.2 (Winter 2010-11): 1-22.

“The Splenetic Sublime: Anne Finch, Melancholic Physiology, and Post/Modernity” in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 39, ed. Downing Thomas and Lisa Cody (Baltimore: University of Johns Hopkins Press, 2010). 1-34.

“Between Swift and Kafka: Animals and the Politics of J. M. Coetzee’s Elusive Fiction.” World Literature Today 78.1 (January-April 2004): 17-23.

“Re-veiling Paradigms: Education, Psychoanalysis, and the Disciplining of Eighteenth-Century Culture.”The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. 37.2 (Summer 1996): 174-83.

“Filthy Thoughts, Or, Cultural Criticism and the Ordure of Things.”Genre 27.4 (Winter 1994): 275-94. [Issued Spring 1996]

“Subjectivity, the Novel, and the Bildung Blocks of Critical Theory.”Genre 26.4 (Winter 1993): 1-17. [Issued Winter 1995]

“Paul de Man and the Legacy of Suspicion.”Literary Theory’s Future(s) Ed. Joseph Natoli. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. 82-115.

“Uncanny Criticism in the United States.”Tracing Literary Theory. Ed. Joseph Natoli. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. 103-35.

“On Conventions: A Review of the Conference on Theories of Reading.”Society for Critical Exchange Reports 11 (Spring 1982): 99-110.

“Analyzing ‘Araby’ as Story and Discourse: A Summary of the MURGE Project.”James Joyce Quarterly 18 (Spring 1981): 237-54.

“Deconstructive Criticism: A Selected Bibliography.”Society for Critical Exchange Reports 8 (Fall 1980): supplement, 54 pp.

“Beyond Interpretation: An Annotated Checklist.”Society for Critical Exchange Reports 6 (Fall 1979): supplement, 25 pp.

REVIEWS:

Quare Joyce. Edited by Joseph Valente (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), in Modern Fiction Studies 46.4 (Winter 2000): 1031-33.

Making the English Canon: Print-Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700-1770, by Jonathan Brody Kramnick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), in Genre 32.4 (Winter 1999).

The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading, by Barbara Johnson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980), in Genre 14.3 (Fall 1981): 413-15.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Sublimations: Aesthetics, Medicine, and Politics in Early Modern Britain. A book-length study of the philosophical, literary, and political contexts in which eighteenth-century views on physiology both undergird and transformed the articulation of sublime experience.

“The Strange Eyes of Edmund Burke.” An essay on how Burke’s appropriation of 18th-century descriptions of the eye’s physiological function shapes his portrayal of both aesthetics and the individual’s constitution as permeable, “modern” subject.

“’You Teachee Them Good’: Robinson Crusoe, New Zealand, and the Cycles of Pedagogical Colonialism.” An essay examining the controversy over the application of postcolonial critique to the South Pacific in the context of the translation of Defoe’s novel into Maori in the mid-19th century.

TEACHING INTERESTS:

Eighteenth-century British literature and philosophy; gender and sexuality in early modern Britain; history of the novel; history of the sublime; history of medicine and literature; critical theory and cultural studies; American film since the 1930s (crime film, film noir, neo-noir, and horror)

Courses at University at Albany:

ENG 210Introduction to English Studies

ENG 310Reading and Interpreting in English Studies (undergraduate level)

ENG 333Altered States in Eighteenth-Century Britain (undergraduate level)

ENG 355David Lynch and His Others (undergraduate level)

ENG 359Gothic Fictions (undergraduate level)

ENG 410 Biopolitics in Theory and Practice (undergraduate level)

ENG 411Britain’s Literary Culture of Ecstasy

ENG 425Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature (undergraduate level)

ENG 485Biology, Culture, and Terror, 1688-2006 (undergraduate level)

ENG 580Bio-Cultures of the Enlightenment (graduate level)

ENG 685Enlightenment, Post/Modernity, and the Sublime (graduate level)

ENG 700Introduction to English Studies (graduate level)

ENG 720Biopolitics and Mediation, Early and Late (graduate level)

ENG 775Special Topics: Sublime Discourses (graduate level)

Honors courses taught (University of Oklahoma) include:

The Detective, the City, and Film Noir in Postwar America (course in the Oklahoma Scholarship-Leadership Enrichment Program [OSLEP], team-taught with Alan Trachtenberg, Yale University)

Flickering Myths: American Film Genres and the Production of Identity

Graduate Courses taught (University of Oklahoma) include:

Sublime Discourses in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

Glimpsing the Sublime: Histories, Theories, and Practices of Sublimity

History of Criticism, 1800 to the Present

Pedagogical Emplotments: Education, Culture, and the Novel in Enlightenment England

The Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Missed/Taken Identities: Gender, Sexuality, and Contemporary Narrative Fiction

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

NATIONAL:

Co-organizer, “Systems of Life: Economies, Politics, and the Biological Sciences, 1750-1850,” Huntington Library, scheduled for November 2012.

Referee for the Klemperer and Helfand Fellowship Selection Committees, The New York Academy of Medicine, 2001-.

Member, Executive Committee for Division of Literary Criticism, Modern Language Association, 1999-2001.

Delegate, Assembly of the Modern Language Association, 1999-2001.

Advisory Editor, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, 1997- ; member of the Editorial Collective, 1991-97; reader, 1991-.

Reader, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, annual publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1995-97.

Advisory Board Member, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, journal for the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1995- .

Steering Committee, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1993-99.

Co-founder, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1992.

South Atlantic Representative to the Assembly of the Modern Language Association, 1984-86.

Reader:

Bucknell University Press;Eighteenth-Century Fiction; Eighteenth-Century Studies;The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation;Genre;Journal for Early Modern Culture; MLA Publications;Papers on Language and Literature; Routledge;Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY:

Chair, Promotion Committee, 2010- .

Member, Speakers and Events Committee, 2010- .

Co-organizer, “Rhetorics of Plague: Early / Modern Trajectories of Biohazard,” a multidisciplinary conference at University at Albany, February 2009.

Director of Graduate Studies, 2003-08.

Chair, Graduate Program Self-Study Committee, 2007-08.

Member, Early 19th-Century British Studies Search Committee, 2007-08.

Chair, Search Committee for 16th-17th-Century British Studies appointment, 2005-06.

Member, Graduate Professionalization Committee, 2003-08.

Chair Advisory Committee, 2003-05.

Summer Chair, June 2005.

Member, Ad Hoc Hiring Planning Committee, 2005.

Member, Department Chair Search Committee, 2004-05.

Member, Ad Hoc Pedagogy and Mentoring Committee, 2004-05.

Chair, Search Committee for 18th- & 19th-Century Transatlantic Studies appointment, 2003-04.

INSTITUTIONAL, UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY:

College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Committee on Admissions and Academic Standing, 2008-09.

CAS Diversity Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 2006-09.

Film Studies Advisory Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 2003-05.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA:

Director of Graduate Studies, 2002-3.

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Classroom Technology; awarded a $17,000 grant from the Arts & Sciences Information Technology Committee for English classroom media upgrades, October 2002.

Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2000-02.

Policy Committee, 2000-03.

Graduate Job Market Advisory Committee, 1999-2003.

Film Studies Coordinator, 1999-2000.

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Evaluation and Review, 1997-98.

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Program Recruitment, 1997-98.

American Studies Search Committee, 1997-98.

African American Studies Search Committee, 1996-97.

Native American Studies Search Committee, 1996-97.

Chair, Public Relations Committee, 1995-98.

Colloquium/Contemporary Authors Committee, 1993-95.

Library Committee, 1993-95.

Ad Hoc Committee on Mid-Term Tenure Track Review, 1992-93.

First-Year Composition Committee, 1989-93.

Consultant and coordinator for Undergraduate Committee’s cultural studies curriculum revision, 1989-91.

INSTITUTIONAL, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA:

School of Education Certification Evaluation Committee, 2001-02.

Advisory Committee, Oklahoma Scholarship-Leadership Enrichment Program (OSLEP), 1999-2003.

Faculty Member, Film and Video Studies Program, 1994-2003.

Film and Video Studies User Fee and Resource Committee, 1999-2001.

Chair, Film and Video Studies Membership Committee, 1999-2003.

Site Director & Co-organizer, “Early Modern Culture 1492-1848,” conference for the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, October 8-10, 1993.

Co-organizer for symposium, “The Subject of History: Writing History After Foucault,” April 1991.

Co-organizer for conference, “Crossing the Disciplines: Cultural Studies in the 1990s,” October 1990.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA:

Committee for Eighteenth-Century Literature, 1984-86.

Committee on Teaching Evaluation for Tenure, 1984.

INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS:

“Revolutionary Eyes: Edmund Burke and the Physiology of Conservatism.” Faculty Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture. Columbia University, March 2012.

“Revolution’s Life.” For the conference “Science, Mind, and Language.” Cornell University, March 2012.

“Edmund Burke and the Conundrum of Revolutionary Immunity.” University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA, April 2010.

“Convulsive Politics: Burke, Physiology, and the French Revolution.” Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, December 2009.

“The Plague of Spleen, or, the Biopolitics of Melancholic Life,” plenary lecture, “Rhetorics of Plague: Early / Modern Trajectories of Biohazard,” University at Albany colloquium, February 2009.

“Uncanny Images of the Schwarzeneggerian Kind: Bodies, Texts, and Politics,” Conference on “Constructing the Body / Constructing the Text,” University at Albany, April 2008.

“The Strange Eyes of Edmund Burke: Anatomy, Sublimity, Subjectivity,” Consortium for Culture and Medicine, Syracuse University, November 2006.

“Sublime Animations: Anamorphism and Anne Finch’s Verse,” Conference on “Vital Matters: Border of the Animate,” Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2006.

“Robinson Crusoe, Colonialism, and Native Literacy in New Zealand,” University of Sofia, Bulgaria, April 2006.

“David Lynch, Neo-Gothicism, and the Advent of the Volitional Camera,” University of Sofia, Bulgaria, April 2006.

“Sublime Anatomy and Edmund Burke,” Tufts University, Boston, February 2006.

“Gothicism, Neo-Gothicism, and the Techno-Subjectivity in the Films of David Lynch.” Plenary lecture, Conference for the Center for the Humanities and Techno-Sciences, University at Albany, April 2005.

“Nature, Media, and the Gothic Sublime.” Lecture for the Friends of the University Libraries series. University at Albany, February 2005.

“Cultural Studies, the British Enlightenment, and the ‘Modern Thing.’” Lecture for the Forum on the New Humanities. University at Albany, April 2004.

“Edmund Burke and the Enigma of Sublime Vision.” Florida State University, January 2003.

“The Body is Not Enough: Edmund Burke, Early Modern Physiology, and Sublime Poetics.” University at Albany, State University of New York, December 2002.

“Strange Eyes: Early Modern Science, Perception, and Sublime Bodies.” Plenary lecture at a joint conference sponsored by Carnegie Mellon and West Virginia Universities, Pittsburgh, March 2001.

“The Eye’s Logic and the Recursive Sublime.” Conference at the William Andrews Clark Library: “Ritual, Routine, and Regime: Institutions of Repetition in Euro-American Cultures, 1650-1832,” Los Angeles, March 2001.

“Boy Trouble: Post-Tarantino Masculinity in American Film.” University of Oklahoma, March 2001.

“Eyeing the Divine: Ophthalmology, Sublimity, and the English Enlightenment.” The New York Academy of Medicine, July 2000.

“Inverse Bodies: Physiology, Scatology, and the Sublime Theory of John Dennis and Edmund Burke.” The Early Modern Workshop, University of Chicago, May 1999.

“Body Problems: Enlightenment Physiology and Edmund Burke=s Repulsive Theory of the Sublime.” Newberry Library, May 1999.

“’Would You Hold Me?’ The Violent Embrace of Masculinity in American Film and Television.” University of California, Santa Barbara, March 1999.

“Queer Quandaries for Quentin, Or, Time and the Masculine Sublime in Pulp Fiction.” Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 1999.

“Mess and Masculinity in American Popular Culture.” University of California, Santa Barbara, July 1998.

“Not Quite Themselves: Men and Masculinity in the Films of Quentin Tarantino.” University of Texas, Arlington, April 1998.

“Robinson Crusoe and the Quandaries of Colonial Improvisation.” University of Denver, February 1998.

“Reading and Interpreting Eighteenth-Century Poetry.” Borders Bookstore, Norman, Oklahoma, March 1997.

PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS:

“Burke, Biology, and Biobelligerence.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 2011.

“Convulsive Biopolitics: Lally-Tollendal, Burke, and the Physiology of Anti-Revolution.” Modern Language Association Convention, Los Angeles, January 2011.

“The Sublime Aesthetic of Mobility,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Albuquerque, NM, March 2010.

“The Biopolitics of Early Modern Mediation,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Albuquerque, NM, March 2010.

“Channeling David Lynch.”

Vroman’s Bookstore, Pasadena, CA, April 2010;